The Collaborative International Dictionary
centralizing \centralizing\ adj. prenom. causing to concentrate at a center. Opposite of decentralizing. [Narrower terms: centripetal, unifying(prenominal)]
Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of centralize English)
WordNet
adj. tending to draw to a central point [syn: centralizing(a), centralising(a)] [ant: decentralizing(a)]
Usage examples of "centralizing".
The constitution, in the distribution of the powers of government, provides the States severally with ample means to protect their individuality against the centralizing tendency of the General government, however strong it may be.
But in their current legislative sessions, Colorado, Indiana, South Dakota, Texas, Virginia, Georgia, Kansas, Montana and Washington have passed bills that—while varying in specifics—would follow the Sunshine State’s lead in centralizing, computerizing and cleansing voter rolls.
Like many of his station, Frontenac was not in full sympathy with the centralizing movement of the time, which tended to level ancient rights, privileges, and prescriptions under the ponderous roller of the monarchical administration.
But such parasitic voices also easily become fodder for centralizing apparatuses of power, like the military's C3I system (command/control/communication/intelligence).
But in all branches of industry-and death is an industry, my young friend, make no mistake about that-one makes one's money from operating in bulk, from buying in quantity, from centralizing one's operations.